Tackle chores, earn rewards, level up together.
Turn chores into a playful, rewarding experience for you and your partner. Earn ripples, automate tasks, and get rewarded — for a happier home.
Download our app
Turn chores into a playful, rewarding experience for you and your partner. Earn ripples, automate tasks, and get rewarded — for a happier home.
Download our app
Sign up, invite your partner, and you're sharing a burrow. What follows is the whole app: four things, done well.
In-app
NFC Tap
Tap an NFC sticker on the dishwasher, the vacuum cupboard, anywhere the chore ends, and it's logged before you've put your phone down. No sticker to hand? Tap the chore in the app instead.
Every logged chore earns ripples, and the Pond shows where everyone stands this week, this month, and since you started. No blame, no guilt. Just a shared view of who's been making the biggest ripple.
Ottr watches how often each chore gets done and learns its natural rhythm. When something looks overdue it sends a single nudge — no schedules to set, no frequencies to enter.
Agree on treats together: a takeaway night, a lie-in, a back massage, whatever works for you both. Spend your ripples when you've earned enough, and the other person makes it happen.
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Everything you need to get started with a happier home.
Fairly priced to cover the services that make Plus features possible.
Plus features need secure databases, hosting, notifications, and integrations to keep running. The monthly price helps pay for those costs so we can keep the app reliable and priced as fairly as possible.
No. Every chore can be logged by hand in the app, and plenty of burrows never buy a single sticker. They just make logging fast enough that you keep doing it.
You put a tag where the chore ends: the dishwasher door, the vacuum cupboard, under the sink for the bins. Tap your phone on it and the chore is logged to your name. You don't need to open Ottr first: the tap does that for you.
Around €8–12 for a pack of 10–20 on Amazon. Any NTAG213 sticker works (NTAG215 and 216 do too), and there is no reason to pay for premium ones. For dishwashers, washing machines and damp corners, buy the “on-metal” or waterproof kind — plain stickers misread on metal.
Yes, Ottr only works when you both log. Send them the invite link from the app and they join your burrow. There's nothing for them to configure.
It's built for two people sharing a home and that's where it's best, but bigger households work fine — invite everyone and the Pond tracks all of them. It isn't a chore chart for kids, though families do adapt it.
The free plan covers chore tracking, ripples, the Pond, nudges, and as many treats as you like. Ottr Plus is €4.99 a month and adds encrypted cloud storage, the web dashboard, Home Assistant, and smarter notifications.
There's a longer list on the full FAQ, and a guide to setting up NFC tags if you want the detail.
Like most couples, my partner and I had the same argument on repeat. Who did the dishes last? Whose turn is it to vacuum? It wasn't that either of us was lazy — we just had no shared system, and no way to see how contributions balanced out over time.
I tried spreadsheets. I tried shared todo lists. None of them stuck, because they all felt like admin rather than something we'd actually want to use. The act of tracking chores felt more tedious than the chores themselves.
That's when I had the idea: what if chores felt like a game? What if logging that you'd cleaned the bathroom earned you something — not just a tick on a list, but points toward a reward you actually wanted? And what if you could see, at a glance, how both of you were contributing that week? And what if that happened almost automatically?
The software engineer in me couldn't resist, and I immediately built the first version of Ottr for my partner and I. It was scrappy, full of bugs and often required manual intervention. But, it worked. We started using it, and as both of us started collecting our first rewards, the arguments disappeared.
I started showing it to friends, and they loved it too. This made me realize, we aren't the only couple in the world with this problem. There's alternative apps around that do similar things, but they often feel like chores themselves - clunky, feature heavy, prescriptive, and not very fun to use.
Ottr isn't about keeping score in a negative way. It's about making the invisible visible, turning obligation into opportunity, and building a rhythm as a team. I've seen it transform the energy in our home — less resentment, more appreciation, and weirdly, more laughter.
I hope it does the same for yours.
